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...field and felt something entirely different from anything he had felt before when he had fought with armies beside him and behind him. These troops were going alone into a world of 35 million suspicious and hostile people. No other nation had ever tried a military operation so distant and complex. The idea of failure was acknowledged but locked away. It had to be. The belief that success can be achieved in such an exploit may be 60% of the effort. It is a beautiful scene, thought the officer as he swept his eyes far down the horizon, taking...
...lowly and the mighty watched solemnly as eight military officers in braided dress uniforms appeared at the door of the Federal Assembly Building adjoining Marx and Engels Square carrying Tito's pale oak coffin. As distant cannons boomed out 21-salvo salutes, the casket was placed on an open gun carriage and covered with the blue, white and red Yugoslav flag. A military band struck up a funeral dirge, Yugoslav air force jets screeched overhead, and a jeep drew the carriage slowly along six-lane Kneza Milosa. Behind the casket, sobbing and dressed in black, was Tito...
...people and U.S. capabilities. It helped spur him on the race to the moon, and he sought a meeting in the summer of 1961 with Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy would not be humiliated or despondent. He vowed to win. Without the same superiority of power and with the crisis so distant, Carter has it tougher. The country's need, however, is greater...
Washington logically perceives the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as being part of a global challenge. For the allies, Afghanistan is a distant land where events should not be the cause of a new cold war between East and West. Thus the allies view the tough U.S. response to the Soviet invasion as an overreaction that has unnecessarily provoked Moscow. From their regional perspective, the European allies fear nothing so much as they do an angry U.S.S.R. and a deterioration of U.S.Soviet relations. Warns Schmidt: "You don't want to scare the Russian bear. It could feel cornered and lash...
...allied argument for not supporting the U.S. was that the events in Iran and Afghanistan were outside of their purview?that they were not covered by the terms either of the NATO alliance or the American defense treaty with Japan. Technically, this is true, but events far distant from Europe or East Asia may still profoundly affect the security of those regions. Referring to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Carter last week said that unless the allies "stand united [and] take firm action to show the Soviets that they will suffer because of it, that might lead to increasing encroachment...